Changing the Economics of Storage for Long-term Persistent Data

SGI® COPAN™ persistent data storage solutions shatter the previous barriers of traditional storage options providing a revolutionary alternative to both costly disk-based solutions and economical but slower, less reliable tape solutions.

With COPAN MAID you can have the best of both worlds - the reliability, easy management, and quick data access of disk - all at a fraction of the cost of transactional storage. Plus you get all the advantages of Enterprise MAID (Massive Array of Idle Disks) - unprecedented reliability, scalability, efficiency and low power and cooling consumption.

Green Storage: Power Efficient Storage

Moving Your Persistent Data Onto the Right Platform Saves Data Center Floor Space and Millions in Significant Power and Cooling Costs
The data explosion is creating a new problem for IT managers. All of that data requires storage, and that storage in turn requires power and data center footprint. For many organizations, both are now in short supply and analyst estimates show that, in the coming years, these issues will become critical storage purchasing decisions. Luckily, there is a solution to both of these problems...and it's available today.

The SGI COPAN Enterprise MAID (Massive Array of Idle Disk) platform is purpose-built to handle the long-term storage of data centers. You can now have all the advantages of Enterprise MAID - unprecedented scalability, reliability, energy and space efficiency. COPAN allows you to keep persistent data online at a fraction of the operating costs of transactional storage with more reliability and performance than offline media.

Data Center Challenges in Today's Business Climate
The amount of data that your company is storing is growing exponentially – and so are your data center utility bills.

As enterprises continue to deploy more servers and storage devices to keep pace with their exploding data storage needs, power consumption requirements and costs are also heating up to unprecedented levels. A recent study from industry analyst IDC estimates that data center electricity costs are already in the $3.3 billion annual range, and according to the InfoPro Wave 9 study, "40% of power in the data center is now for data storage."

It can also cost more to cool a data center than it does to lease the floor space that houses it. One industry expert estimates that the average utility cost for a 100,000 square-foot data center is over $6 million per year! For some companies, this means that they now must compensate by moving to new facilities, putting off hardware purchases, or leaving floor space unoccupied to avoid paying corresponding utility costs.

How a COPAN MAID Solution Can Save You Money
COPAN Enterprise MAID solution is purpose-built for persistent data. Persistent data can now be kept online at a fraction of the operating costs of transactional storage with more reliability and performance than offline media. Keeping data online enables it to be repurposed for increased business value while saving at least 75% annually on power and cooling costs in the data center over traditional solutions.

• Migrating your persistent data to Enterprise MAID can equate to massive savings
  Persistent data has aged to a point where it is infrequently changed or modified, but still needs to be retained for future reference or access. Examples of persistent data are video files, pictures, PowerPoint presentations and emails. Analysts estimate that between 75-85% of the data stored by the average Fortune 1000 enterprise is persistent data.
• How COPAN solution can save you money
  COPAN Enterprise MAID solution is the only Enterprise storage solution that powers drives off when they are not in use. This equates to power savings of 85% compared to other traditional storage vendors.

The costs of provisioning new power to a data center is substantial (assuming more power is available from the grid), a COPAN Enhanced MAID solution significantly reduces the infrastructures costs associated with power and cooling provision, which still needs to be provisioned for a "spin-down" client. These costs can often be higher than the investment in storage itself.

Benefits

• Increased Reliability
• Replication for disaster recovery
• Data protection, data archiving and storage tiering
• Save up to 85% on power and cooling costs
• Save up to 75% in data center floor space